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February 10, 2013

Classical Beat: PSO revisits some of the great movie scores

The printed program for “A Night at the Movies,” the Feb. 23-24 Pops! concerts of the Portland Symphony Orchestra, was as fascinating as those ancient maps with a blank space for uncharted territory. What were they going to play, and by whom? (The program, selected by guest conductor Carl Topilow, has since appeared on the […]
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February 10, 2013

Signings, etc.

RON CURRIE JR.
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February 10, 2013

Movie Review: Soderbergh channels Hitchcock to good ‘Effects’

The baseline mystery of Steven Soderbergh’s masterful Hitchcockian thriller “Side Effects” is “What’s really going on here?” The film keeps viewers emotionally invested yet intellectually off-balance, suffusing even the most ostensibly straightforward scenes with a sense of free-floating anxiety. It pays off with edge-of-the-seat chills, walloping surprises and an uncanny ability to make complex plotting […]
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February 10, 2013

Who’s your Grammy favorite?

Is it Bruce? Kanye? Adele? We asked some music-biz insiders to handicap Sunday night's races.
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February 10, 2013

Book Review: Drama, heart in blended family dynamics

Which is tougher on a young girl — losing a father to death or losing a father to divorce? That is the question Meg Wilson of North Yarmouth explores in a new novel, “Crappy New Year.” And she explores it honestly and well. As humorist Elizabeth Peavey has observed, this is “a snappy, funny and […]

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February 10, 2013

A couple of local storylines to play out at Tinseltown

Every year, Portland has a very strong connection to the Grammy Awards, thanks to the work of Bob Ludwig and Adam Ayan at Gateway Mastering. The two are stars in the world of mastering – the final fine-tuning of a recording – and they master recordings for dozens of star acts. This year, more than […]
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February 9, 2013

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

Edna St. Vincent Millay, who grew up in Rockport, wrote some of the great sonnets of our literature. For Valentine’s week, here’s one of her best-known and most moving.
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February 3, 2013

Art Review: Diverse print show poses edgy questions

Print shows, for some reason, are dotting the Maine landscape. No one has been more active in mounting print shows recently than Bruce Brown, curator emeritus of the Center for Maine Contemporary Art. His “Prints: Breaking Boundaries” at the Portland Public Library is a good show. But it’s also an important show, although a casual […]
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February 3, 2013

Dine Out Maine: Food surprises at comfortable, fun Montsweag Roadhouse

About a year ago, a friend pulled me aside and claimed that Montsweag Roadhouse served the best fish tacos anywhere. This kind of comment requires investigation. And so my frequent drive-bys finally became a stop-in-and-dine. From the outside, Montsweag Roadhouse looks the same as it did 30 or so years ago, when it was Montsweag […]
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February 3, 2013

Book Review: Mystery, oddities of island off Texas

Tales of misfortune and descriptive writing drive Elizabeth Black's novel.

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